TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pu,Songling
AU  - Giles,Herbert Allen
TI  - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 2 (of 2)
AV  - PL 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
KW  - Short stories, Chinese -- Translations into English
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio; Release date is 2013-09-03; Produced by obstobst, Henry Flower and the Online
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N2  - "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 2 (of 2)" by Pu Songling is a collection of classical Chinese tales written between the 1670s and early 1700s. This volume forms part of a compilation containing nearly 500 stories that blur the boundaries between the supernatural and everyday reality. The tales explore passionate emotional entanglements through encounters with ghosts, foxes, and otherworldly beings. Rather than frightening readers, these romantic and philosophical stories use vivid detail to make transitions between realms seem natural, while subtly critiquing societal problems of Qing dynasty China. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43628
ER  -